Of course he doesn’t have the character to actually say Bush was right, or admit that he was wrong, but he is at least grown up enough to throw his campaign promises about Gitmo under the bus, blaming, essentially, his nutroot followers for failing to realize how difficult an issue it is. Of course, he fails to mention that he was the one encouraging them not to realize it for his own political gain:

President-elect Barack Obama said this weekend that he does not expect to close Guantanamo Bay in his first 100 days in office.

“I think it’s going to take some time and our legal teams are working in consultation with our national security apparatus as we speak to help design exactly what we need to do,” Obama said in an exclusive “This Week” interview with George Stephanopoulos, his first since arriving in Washington.

“It is more difficult than I think a lot of people realize,”the president-elect explained. “Part of the challenge that you have is that you have a bunch of folks that have been detained, many of whom may be very dangerous who have not been put on trial or have not gone through some adjudication. And some of the evidence against them may be tainted even though it’s true. And so how to balance creating a process that adheres to rule of law, habeas corpus, basic principles of Anglo-American legal system, by doing it in a way that doesn’t result in releasing people who are intent on blowing us up.” [Emphasis added.read more]

Better late than never, I suppose. Too bad he has already done so much damage convincing people around the world of the opposite.

The weasel-elect is also still trying to play the fence on prosecuting Bush and Cheney; trying to imply to his psychopathic followers that he isn’t ruling out putting Bush on trial, while his equivocation makes it clear he knows damn well that Bush and Cheney never did anything illegal, and has no intention of doing so. Yet, again, he lacks the character to admit that he knowingly made false implications of treason for political gain. What a swell guy!

Ironic that an ostensibly “better” president than Bush, like say, FDR, might very well have prosecuted Obama for sedition.

But hey, Obama never claimed he was going to put “Country First” — that was the other guy.